Enhance your management of musculoskeletal conditions by watching the "Pain and Creaky Joints GP Symposium" recordings. This symposium offers vital insights into common challenges and modern approaches.
Learn from Dr. Kodsi about chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP), a condition often diagnosed in your office. Understand its risk factors like pre-operative opioid use and psychological distress, and how your early intervention is crucial for patient trajectories. Discover pain specialists' multimodal strategies to mitigate pain and decrease central sensitization.
Dr. Zicat discusses obesity and joint health, showing that while obese patients risk hip and knee arthritis, surgery offers substantial quality of life improvements, with modern wound care reducing complications. Importantly, withholding surgery based on BMI is often not appropriate.
Explore shoulder pain with A/Prof Raniga, focusing on the "critical shoulder angle" as a predictor for osteoarthritis versus rotator cuff tears. Learn why early MRI is crucial for young patients with full-thickness rotator cuff tears due to their high progression risk.
For hip and knee osteoarthritis, Prof. Adie, Dr. Stoita, and Dr. Negus emphasize first-line non-surgical management: education, land-based exercise, and weight loss. Prioritize weight-bearing X-rays for imaging. Gain practical advice on surgical referral and post-operative care, including opioid management and comprehensive geriatric assessment for elderly patients.
This symposium equips you with essential knowledge to optimize patient care from initial presentation to post-surgical recovery.